Presidents of The University of Chicago - Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute

• Robert Biggs – Professor Emeritus of Assyriology
• John Brinkman – Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Mesopotamian History
• Miguel Civil – Professor Emeritus of Sumerology
• Stuart Creason -Lecturer, Classical Hebrew
• Fred Donner – Professor of Islamic History
• Peter Dorman – Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
• Walter Farber – Professor of Assyriology
• McGuire Gibson – Professor of Archaeology
• Petra Goedegebuure – Assistant Professor of Hittitology
• Norman Golb – Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization
• Gene Gragg – Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages
• Rebecca Hasselbach – Assistant Professor of Comparative Semitics
• Harry A. Hoffner, JR. – John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Hittitology
• Janet Johnson – Professor of Egyptology
• Walter Kaegi – Professor of Byzantine-Islamic Studies
• Nadine Moeller – Assistant Professor, Egyptian Archaeology
• Dennis Pardee – Professor of Northwest Semitic Philology
• Seth Richardson – Assistant Professor of Ancient History
• Robert Ritner – Professor of Egyptology
• Martha Roth – Professor of Assyriology; Editor, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
• David Schloen – Associate Professor of Syro-Palestinian archaeology
• Andrea Seri – Assistant Professor of Assyriology
• Gil Stein – Director, Oriental Institute
• Matthew Stolper – Professor of Assyriology and Achaemenid Empire. He is directing Persepolis Fortification Project. He is member of American Institute of Iranian Studies, American Oriental Society, British Institute of Persian Studies, and British School of Archaeology in Iraq. His primary concentration also includes Elamite political history, Babylonian political and social history, Akkadian historical and legal texts.
• Theo Van Den Hout – Professor of Hittitology; Editor, Chicago Hittite Dictionary
• Edward Wente – Professor Emeritus of Egyptology
• Chistopher Woods – Associate Professor of Sumerology
• K. Aslihan Yener – Professor of Ancient Anatolian Archeology. She is specialized in Ancient Mining and Metal Technology and the Rise of Complex Industries. Director of the Amuq Valley Regional Projects in Antioch (Antakya, Turkey). She is researching Tell Atchana (ancient Alalakh) the capital city of the Kingdom of Mukish (the Amuq) during the Hittite period (Late Bronze Age c. 2000-1200 BC) She has directed are Kestel tin mine, Goltepe and Tell Kurdu.